How many baby Spectacled hare-wallabys are in a litter?
A Spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 259 grams (0.57 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Macropodidae family (genus: Lagorchestes). An adult Spectacled hare-wallaby grows up to a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus) is a species of macropod (hence a marsupial) found in Australia and New Guinea. In Australia, a small sub-population is found on Barrow Island, while the mainland type is widespread, though in decline, across northern regions of the country.
Other animals of the family Macropodidae
Spectacled hare-wallaby is a member of the Macropodidae, as are these animals:
- Black-striped wallaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nabarlek with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Small dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky pademelon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Godman’s rock-wallaby weighting around 4.75 kilograms (10.47 lbs)
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Spectacled hare-wallaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tufted deer
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Black-rumped agouti
- Broad-toothed mouse
- Irrawaddy dolphin
- Tamaraw
- Giant bandicoot
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey
- Taruca
- Leadbeater’s possum
Animals that get as old as a Spectacled hare-wallaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6 years:
- Prevost’s squirrel with 5.67 years
- Tailless tenrec with 6.25 years
- Little free-tailed bat with 5 years
- Dark kangaroo mouse with 5.42 years
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 5.5 years
- Moonrat with 7 years
- Tropical pocket gopher with 7 years
- Sundevall’s jird with 5.58 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 5 years
- Least chipmunk with 6.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Spectacled hare-wallaby
What other animals weight around 2.82 kg (6.22 lbs)?
- Owston’s palm civet usually reaching 3.27 kgs (7.21 lbs)
- Sunda stink badger usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Tufted capuchin usually reaching 2.76 kgs (6.08 lbs)
- Red-eared guenon usually reaching 3.25 kgs (7.17 lbs)
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha usually reaching 2.68 kgs (5.91 lbs)
- Small Indian civet usually reaching 2.95 kgs (6.5 lbs)
- Northern common cuscus usually reaching 2.33 kgs (5.14 lbs)
- Wedge-capped capuchin usually reaching 2.79 kgs (6.15 lbs)
- Aye-aye usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Hoary bamboo rat usually reaching 2.45 kgs (5.4 lbs)